Hunger Games: Shine

[tehlobster]

Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Character/Pairing: Caesar Flickerman
Author's Note: Based off the fact that Katniss sensed that Caesar was also trying to help her.
Warnings: None.
Summary: Caesar Flickerman makes tributes shine. A character study.

Comments

[honorh]

That's a great character study. Caesar is part of a monstrous machine, but he himself isn't a monster. He's just swallowed the Capitol's kool-aid.

[tehlobster]

Thanks! Yeah, he was a pretty good guy. I thought he was a great example of how not everybody in the Capitol was a monster. Just because he wasn't in the rebellion didn't make hm a bad person.

[rosehiptea]

I can totally see this. I still can't think of him as a good person, but you could tell he had his reservations.

[tehlobster]

Wow, it's been AGES since I've seen you around! Of course I haven't been on the Avatar fandom on LJ and I don't know if you still are either.

Anyway, thanks for the review! <3 He definitely did.

[rosehiptea]

I haven't been watching Korra so I haven't been around in the fandom unfortunately.

Yeah he's a pretty intriguing character really.

[trovia]

And then there's me thinking that all this makes him the biggest monster of all. :D

This is really interesting. I go back and forth about Caesar - Kat is such an unreliable narrator that I want to automatically assume her impression of Caesar is just wrong and he's really a pedophile who buys the youngest victors for themselves, or something. (I've gone down that route in fic) However, this way around he makes just as much sense, and comes off as just as creepy as somebody like Snow. He reminds me of Eichmann, who organized the Holocaust because he liked order and flawless things and he thought the Jews deserved to die efficiently. So all this is to say, I enjoyed reading this little ficlet a lot, I think it's very smart and incredibly disturbing in all the best ways. Also it gives me reason to use my Flickerman icon, which doesn't happen all that often. ;)

[tehlobster]

Ha, I only have one Hunger Games icon - District 12 because I'm from West Virginia. XD And I had to make it myself. That's a very nice icon, I can see why you like to get a chance to use it!

I figure her narration is unreliable as hell to begin with and by the end it's just shot to pieces, but of course I adore unreliable narrators. Partially for this reason - we get just enough information that we can get an idea of what's going on, but then we have to fill in our own ideas on what's really going on. (Really put to good use in a totalitarian dystopia.)

You're right, he does have some parallels to Eichmann. Ew, now I'm ALL creeped out. Thanks. :D